anticipation

She had slept terribly the night before, in anticipation.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

"That's why there's anticipation that the same magic can be replicated with the Jio IPO."

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Sociologist Allison Daminger has studied this invisible dimension of household work: the planning, anticipation, decision-making and monitoring that continue even when someone else is performing the physical task.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

Agriculture futures had risen sharply this year in anticipation of many of these effects, though they retreated a bit over the past month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

On her perch, Hazel could feel the water beneath her buzzing with greedy anticipation.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

It is always filtered through layers of worldviews, social practices, historical memories and anticipations of the future.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024

And they do that through trying to anticipate how we might get hurt and reacting to those anticipations.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

There were bright songs about times and places, memories and anticipations, “Saturday afternoon” and “the future” — and about how the world of tomorrow might be a more just and peaceful place.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2021

In 1857, Osborne wrote that he had arrived in California “full of high hopes and bright anticipations of the future” only to find his dreams “have long since perished.”

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014

But his exhortations toward national unity were less descriptions than anticipations, less reminders of the way we were than predictions of what we could become.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis